Re: /dev/psaux
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 14:43, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
>
> Seriously, gpm just gives up control when I go to tty7 (X), and X
> releases control of it when I go someplace else. It might very well be
> that /dev/psaux can only be read by one process, but I have never had a
> problem with that, because the processes that read it ALWAYS work around
> it... So my point isn't that /dev/psaux isn't braindead, but that _that
> has never been a problem_ ;-)
If everything using /dev/psaux has been fixed, that's great, but it
definitely used to be a problem. (Also note that with 2.6 kernels,
/dev/psaux is deprecated and merely an alias for /dev/input/mice)
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